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Boomer retirement wave may mean more opportunities Longtime association head Susan Waters attributes the start of her CEO career to a fateful phone call and a fortuitous bit of false information. Waters Abruzzo Fontes The call was from the secretary of the outgoing executive director of the Prince George’'s County (Maryland) Medical Society. The director, the secretary said, was leaving soon and thought Waters would be great for the job, so he wanted to encourage her to apply. Waters, only 24 at the time and working as a claims executive for the insurance company Aetna, had no real aspirations to be an association leader; in fact, she had never… Read More